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 With regard to the Method pursued, it may be allowable to observe, that the directions, concerning the respective articles, are not confusedly scattered up and down, in distant parts of the work, nor are the operations belonging to ONE, confounded with those of another: in this Manual the reader will find every Fruit-tree separately and compleately treated of, as to its Botanic Class and Genus, its Growth, Mode of Bearing, Flowers, Fruit, and time of Ripening; its method of Propagation by Grafting, Budding, Layers, Cuttings, Suckers, or Seeds; and the different Stocks suitable to the particular nature of the Tree, with regard to Grafting and Budding. All which are pointed out under the name of that Fruit-tree to which they respectively belong.